What AI assistants recommend when buyers ask about ai tools for academic and scientific researchers — measured weekly across engines, published as open data.
Sample: 49 AI answers · Window: May 21, 2026 – Jun 18, 2026 (4-week rolling)
| # | Product | Share | Trend | Engines | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Elicit elicit.org | 40.8% avg pos 2.1 | — | CHATGPT 4.8%CLAUDE 71.4%PERPLEXITY 66.7% | Claim |
| 2 | Semantic Scholar semanticscholar.org | 38.8% avg pos 3.3 | — | CHATGPT 28.6%CLAUDE 71.4%PERPLEXITY 38.1% | Claim |
| 3 | Scite scite.ai | 36.7% avg pos 7.3 | — | CHATGPT 19%CLAUDE 57.1%PERPLEXITY 47.6% | Claim |
| 4 | Zotero zotero.org | 32.7% avg pos 2.5 | — | CHATGPT 66.7%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 5 | Mendeley mendeley.com | 32.7% avg pos 3.7 | — | CHATGPT 66.7%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 6 | Connected Papers connectedpapers.com | 30.6% avg pos 7.1 | — | CHATGPT 47.6%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 19% | Claim |
| 7 | Litmaps | 28.6% avg pos 4.8 | — | CHATGPT 14.3%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 47.6% | Claim |
| 8 | Consensus | 26.5% avg pos 3.1 | — | CLAUDE 71.4%PERPLEXITY 38.1% | Claim |
| 9 | NotebookLM notebooklm.google.com | 26.5% avg pos 5.1 | — | CHATGPT 4.8%CLAUDE 42.9%PERPLEXITY 42.9% | Claim |
| 10 | EndNote endnote.com | 24.5% avg pos 5.7 | — | CHATGPT 57.1% | Claim |
| 11 | ChatGPT openai.com | 24.5% avg pos 11.6 | — | CHATGPT 33.3%CLAUDE 42.9%PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 12 | SciSpace scispace.com | 20.4% avg pos 2.4 | — | CHATGPT 4.8%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 38.1% | Claim |
| 13 | ResearchRabbit researchrabbitapp.com | 20.4% avg pos 8.1 | — | CHATGPT 28.6%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 14.3% | Claim |
| 14 | Scholarcy | 18.4% avg pos 5.8 | — | CHATGPT 14.3%PERPLEXITY 28.6% | Claim |
| 15 | Research Rabbit | 16.3% avg pos 5.3 | — | CHATGPT 4.8%PERPLEXITY 33.3% | Claim |
| 16 | Google Scholar scholar.google.com | 16.3% avg pos 6.6 | — | CHATGPT 23.8%CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 17 | Paperpal paperpal.com | 14.3% avg pos 6.8 | — | CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 28.6% | Claim |
| 18 | ResearchGate researchgate.net | 14.3% avg pos 9.8 | — | CHATGPT 33.3% | Claim |
| 19 | NVivo qsrinternational.com | 14.3% avg pos 17.2 | — | CHATGPT 23.8%CLAUDE 28.6% | Claim |
| 20 | SciSummary scisummary.com | 10.2% avg pos 4.4 | — | CHATGPT 9.5%PERPLEXITY 14.3% | Claim |
| 21 | Grammarly grammarly.com | 10.2% avg pos 10.2 | — | CHATGPT 23.8% | Claim |
| 22 | Scrivener literatureandlatte.com | 10.2% avg pos 11.5 | — | CHATGPT 23.8% | Claim |
| 23 | Atlas.ti atlasti.com | 10.2% avg pos 20.3 | — | CHATGPT 19%CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 24 | Undermind | 8.2% avg pos 1 | — | PERPLEXITY 19% | Claim |
| 25 | TensorFlow tensorflow.org | 8.2% avg pos 3.5 | — | CHATGPT 19% | Claim |
| 26 | PyTorch pytorch.org | 8.2% avg pos 6 | — | CHATGPT 19% | Claim |
| 27 | NumPy | 8.2% avg pos 6.8 | — | CHATGPT 19% | Claim |
| 28 | SciPy scipy.org | 8.2% avg pos 6.8 | — | CHATGPT 19% | Claim |
| 29 | MATLAB | 8.2% avg pos 7.8 | — | CHATGPT 14.3%CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 30 | Notion notion.so | 8.2% avg pos 12 | — | CHATGPT 14.3%CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 31 | PapersFlow papersflow.ai | 6.1% avg pos 1 | — | PERPLEXITY 14.3% | Claim |
| 32 | NotePT.io notegpt.io | 6.1% avg pos 3 | — | PERPLEXITY 14.3% | Claim |
| 33 | Perplexity | 6.1% avg pos 4 | — | CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 34 | Claude claude.ai | 6.1% avg pos 6 | — | CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 35 | Gemini | 6.1% avg pos 6 | — | CLAUDE 14.3%PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 36 | Paperguide paperguide.ai | 6.1% avg pos 7 | — | CLAUDE 28.6%PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 37 | Papers | 6.1% avg pos 8 | — | CHATGPT 14.3% | Claim |
| 38 | Thesify thesify.ai | 6.1% avg pos 9 | — | PERPLEXITY 14.3% | Claim |
| 39 | PubMed pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov | 6.1% avg pos 9.3 | — | CHATGPT 14.3% | Claim |
| 40 | Consensus.app consensus.app | 6.1% avg pos 9.7 | — | CHATGPT 4.8%PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 41 | Tableau Public tableau.com | 6.1% avg pos 13 | — | CHATGPT 14.3% | Claim |
| 42 | pandas | 6.1% avg pos 13.7 | — | CHATGPT 14.3% | Claim |
| 43 | Obsidian obsidian.md | 6.1% avg pos 14 | — | CHATGPT 9.5%CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 44 | IBM API Connect ibm.com | 6.1% avg pos 19.3 | — | CHATGPT 14.3% | Claim |
| 45 | Anthropic Claude API anthropic.com | 4.1% avg pos 1 | — | CLAUDE 28.6% | Claim |
| 46 | Keenious keenious.com | 4.1% avg pos 1 | — | PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 47 | Yomu AI | 4.1% avg pos 4 | — | PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 48 | Sourcely sourcely.net | 4.1% avg pos 4.5 | — | PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 49 | ChatPDF | 4.1% avg pos 5 | — | PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 50 | Gemini Deep Research | 4.1% avg pos 5 | — | PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 51 | Jenni AI jenni.ai | 4.1% avg pos 5 | — | PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 52 | TLDR This | 4.1% avg pos 5 | — | PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 53 | Microsoft Copilot | 4.1% avg pos 6 | — | PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 54 | Rayyan rayyan.qcri.org | 4.1% avg pos 6.5 | — | CHATGPT 9.5% | Claim |
| 55 | Ref-N-Write | 4.1% avg pos 7.5 | — | CHATGPT 9.5% | Claim |
| 56 | Perplexity AI perplexity.ai | 4.1% avg pos 8.5 | — | PERPLEXITY 9.5% | Claim |
| 57 | SPSS | 4.1% avg pos 9 | — | CHATGPT 4.8%CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 58 | IEEE Xplore ieeexplore.ieee.org | 4.1% avg pos 9.5 | — | CHATGPT 9.5% | Claim |
| 59 | Paperpile paperpile.com | 4.1% avg pos 10 | — | CHATGPT 9.5% | Claim |
| 60 | Python | 4.1% avg pos 11 | — | CHATGPT 9.5% | Claim |
| 61 | R Studio rstudio.com | 4.1% avg pos 11.5 | — | CHATGPT 9.5% | Claim |
| 62 | Iris.ai iris.ai | 4.1% avg pos 15.5 | — | CHATGPT 4.8%PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 63 | Academia.edu academia.edu | 4.1% avg pos 16 | — | CHATGPT 9.5% | Claim |
| 64 | Kopernio | 4.1% avg pos 17 | — | CHATGPT 9.5% | Claim |
| 65 | Granted AI grantedai.com | 2% avg pos 1 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 66 | ScienceOS scienceos.ai | 2% avg pos 1 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 67 | Grantable grantable.co | 2% avg pos 2 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 68 | OpenAI Prism | 2% avg pos 2 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 69 | Wolfram Alpha wolframalpha.com | 2% avg pos 2 | — | CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 70 | Labster | 2% avg pos 3 | — | CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 71 | OpenAI Deep Research | 2% avg pos 3 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 72 | Recall | 2% avg pos 3 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 73 | Scite.ai | 2% avg pos 3 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 74 | Scopus scopus.com | 2% avg pos 3 | — | CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 75 | Web of Science | 2% avg pos 3 | — | CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 76 | EndNote AI | 2% avg pos 4 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 77 | Instrumentl | 2% avg pos 4 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 78 | PICO Portal | 2% avg pos 4 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 79 | ResearchPal | 2% avg pos 4 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 80 | Zotero AI | 2% avg pos 4 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 81 | Ebook Central Research Assistant | 2% avg pos 5 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 82 | Explainpaper | 2% avg pos 5 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 83 | Microsoft Dynamics 365 microsoft.com | 2% avg pos 5 | — | CHATGPT 4.8% | Claim |
| 84 | Primo Research Assistant | 2% avg pos 5 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 85 | ProQuest Research Assistant | 2% avg pos 5 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 86 | QuillBot quillbot.com | 2% avg pos 5 | — | CHATGPT 4.8% | Claim |
| 87 | Summon Research Assistant | 2% avg pos 5 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 88 | Trinka AI | 2% avg pos 5 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 89 | Web of Science Research Assistant | 2% avg pos 5 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 90 | Grant Assistant | 2% avg pos 6 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 91 | Turnitin turnitin.com | 2% avg pos 7 | — | CHATGPT 4.8% | Claim |
| 92 | ArXiv arxiv.org | 2% avg pos 9 | — | CHATGPT 4.8% | Claim |
| 93 | Amazon Q Developer | 2% avg pos 10 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 94 | Colwiz | 2% avg pos 10 | — | CHATGPT 4.8% | Claim |
| 95 | Cursor cursor.sh | 2% avg pos 10 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 96 | GitHub Copilot | 2% avg pos 10 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 97 | GraphPad Prism graphpad.com | 2% avg pos 10 | — | CHATGPT 4.8% | Claim |
| 98 | My Grant CoPilot | 2% avg pos 10 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
| 99 | Papers with Code paperswithcode.com | 2% avg pos 10 | — | CLAUDE 14.3% | Claim |
| 100 | Ai2 Asta | 2% avg pos 11 | — | PERPLEXITY 4.8% | Claim |
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